Axe III vs Quad Cortex comparison

[FractalAudio]

Blah, blah, blah. Moving to The Lounge.

 

[Budda]

curious if we get the 1:1 comparison..

 

[axes]

For a more apples-to-apples comparison, have you tried changing the Speaker Impedance Curve to "Resistive Load" or one of the "Load Box" curves? Theoretically, that should put it on closer to a level playing field with your amps using a reactive load.

That said, the true ideal is a tube amp into a real speaker. In that sense, the Fractal modeling has an advantage that it can model power amp interactions that aren't happening with a load box.

Yes, of course I have. I actually prefer the LB-2 UK impedance curve since that's what I'm using with my tube amps. It is close that way sound-wise but the feel doesn't come any closer.

 

[axes]

Have you tried the output compression. Kemper uses compression in a similar way to get that kind of chewy pick bounce
I know what your talking about in the real world Bogner does that and it coming from low voltage in the preamp and compression
To try and replicate that in axe
Look at the following

Output compression set to Feedback
Input dynamics
Preamp stage compression
Working with those 3 parameters you may find some success
Especially the output Feedback just use sparingly

OK, so you're definitely onto something with the feel and Input Dynamics - I prefer it at 1 or 2 (as an expander). Anything higher than that starts to sound unrealistic. Tried negative values but they make things even smoother (obviously since it's compression).
I'll be trying output compression more but at first try I didn't like it.
What do you mean by preamp stage compression?
Thank you!

 

[cole lewis]

How are you boosting your amp in your signal chain Axes?

I think you will get more compression using one of the tube screamer models especially with a tiny bit of gain vs say the input boosts or similar pure boost models, non overdrives.

 

[axes]

How are you boosting your amp in your signal chain Axes?

I think you will get more compression using one of the tube screamer models especially with a tiny bit of gain vs say the input boosts or similar pure boost models, non overdrives.

Since I mostly play the JP2C model I don't boost it. When I do I usually use the TS. But it's not about the tone, it's really the feel, and Input Dynamics seems to be the right call - I just need to figure out what else I can do to make it better.